Thursday, November 09, 2000

Some international quotes on our presidential election/farse:

The first presidential election of the new millennium takes America into the surreal world of a possible unprecedented constitutional crisis, a crisis of confidence in the integrity of its electoral system, said the Italian center-left daily La Republica.

America today is a laughing stock, wrote the British tabloid Mirror, adding: "It's the sort of thing you would expect from a banana republic."

The German daily Die Welt said Tuesday's polls were a "macabre spectacle."

And, what did we respond with? A senior State Department official said he found the attention "amusing," but referred to those making insulting remarks as "the idiots around the world."

All of these quotes came from this article.